The government can stop
destroying the monarch butterflies
habitat

NGO's can help by planting
plants including milkweed and
flowers

Habitat

In spring and summer: open fields, meadows that include milkweeds. In winter: coast of southern
California also in central Mexico on high altitudes

Status

Special Concern

Biome

Grasslands, some forests

Biology

SIZE:Wing Span is 8.6cm-12.4cm(3-4 inches)

COLOUR:Black and Orange

FOOD:Larvae eats milkweed and adult eats nectar

OFFSPRING:760 eggs

WEIGHT: 0.5 grams

BEHAVIOUR:Long distance migrator. Migrates north and south. Great
grandchildren of individual butterfly makes it back at starting point.
Individual does not. Monarchs gather in the fall who are in north go to
south. In spring, they breed while heading north.

New node

LIFE CYCLE: 2-6 weeks. First egg then larvae then chrysalis then
butterfly